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Can We Get To The Amnesty Now?

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I get the appeal of the scandals surrounding Obama.  I do.  They’re big, juicy, and a lot of people think we’re making headway.  And yes, they’re very, very relevant to the kind of governance liberalism will give us and as a demonstration of what leftism really is.  So how about we prevent all these sorts of scandals from becoming a permanent state of affairs by getting to the amnesty bill now?

The voting numbers on it are horrific so far.

As for Rubio finally saying it’s legalization first?  He’s still wrong.  It’s legalization ONLY.  Enough Democrat agitation and a forum shopped judge or two will see to it, and even that absurdly assumes Obama will enforce any new security provisions (which he won’t).  The security is effectively fiction and at the very least, none of the bill’s proponents care.

So put the other scandals on the back burner for the time being.  There’s time enough to deal with them after we ensure any action we take to hold Democrats to account isn’t rendered futile by an amnesty.  We’re already at the point Senate passage is more or less a given.  We’ll have to kill it in the House and hope Boehner doesn’t decide he’s a Democrat Speaker again to keep it dead.  So drop the distractions and turn up the pressure on this now.

Quit Limiting Accountability To The Primaries

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Well, two more in on the immigration farce.  Paul Ryan and Kelly Ayotte are coming out in favor of it.  This time around, either the carrot/stick approach by the special interests has been especially intense or they figure we conservatives are beaten due to muted resistance up to this point.

I’ve read the occasional call to primary anyone having anything to do with this bill but at this point and time it’s safe to say restricting ourselves to action in the primaries alone won’t be sufficient.  Enough of the Establishment sorts simply don’t get primary challengers or challengers with real chances to keep that threat realistic.  To hold them accountable at this point, they have to lose no matter what.  In short, we need to start thinking of every election cycle as two chances to get rid of them:  the primary and the general.

Yes, the Republicans may lose a seat but what are the Republicans?  Is anyone really supposed to believe their brand is who they actually are?  Just the most recent things like the Marketplace Fairness Act, debt ceiling capitulations, multiple amnesty pushes, refusing to defund Obamacare, and ‘Tea Party’ candidates like Rubio turning on us make their brand a farce.  Outside of a small handful of welcome exceptions and the occasional governor they are most certainly NOT the party of smaller, Constitutionally limited government.  They’re more like the ‘me-too Democrats’ party and will remain that way for so long as the Establishment sorts keep their seats.

We’re at the point where we either finish the housecleaning in earnest or rid ourselves of the entire pack of fools and start over with a new second party.  We need a real opposition to liberalism post haste.  That means not chaining ourselves hand and foot by falling into line with Republicans regardless of how vile they are.  We can’t cycle in new and better people until the old losers are gone.

Whether or not they like us, think they can just continue conning us, or want us gone, they are nothing without conservatives (as Romney found out in 2012).  We can be the final say in the matter should enough of us decide to quit restricting ourselves to an artificial construct known as the primaries.  The left turn by the Republicans doesn’t look like it’s going to stop otherwise.  Let’s get this done.

More Amnesty Duplicity

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Amnesty is coming up and there are two things I’ve heard about it lately that I simply don’t believe.

1.)  Several reports citing some variation of not having the votes.  Given the deceptive nature of amnesty proponents this time around, not the least of which is a liberal organization called Americans for a Conservative Direction, you would be well served in believing this is an attempt to get conservatives to drop their guard.  Amnesty shills aren’t trying to jackhammer this thing through Congress with the race card and base bashing this time.  They’re trying to con everyone into backing it through misrepresentations.

The trick doesn’t have to succeed forever.  They just need everyone to stop pressuring Congress long enough to get this bill signed and repeated reports of vote shortages would aid that effort nicely.  So prep for the worst and assume they DO have the votes until this bill is officially toast.  Amnesty is DOA when it’s DOA and no sooner.

2.)  Rubio’s decided not to vote for his own bill unless security improves.  At least that’s what he’s saying.  Throw in the IRS bashing and the latest about him trying to repeal Obamacare’s individual mandate with a constitutional amendment and you’ll see a transparent attempt to take a hard right and regain some credibility.  It seems the amnesty pushback isn’t what he expected.

He’s learned his RINO-101 well.  Put forth a amendment idea about a hot-button conservative issue that he knows isn’t going to go anywhere in order to gain massive amounts of conservative cred without having to do anything conservative.  Bash the IRS because words are cheap and again, gain a massive amount of conservative cred with no substantive conservatism required.  But when no one is swallowing his very substantive and highly destructive amnesty bill with artificial security flavoring, propose a new amendment that looks good on paper to keep the process rolling.  If the instant legalization is still in place and Obama is still President, it won’t make the slightest bit of difference if extra security passes.  It’ll never see the light of day

Those still fluffing Rubio need to get on the ball yesterday.  Yes, it’s been very disappointing that a guy we moved Heaven and Earth to elect as one of the first Tea Party candidates has shown his true colors this way.  There’s no time to unhappy about it though.  Unlike the usual Republican Establishment dregs he’s proven exceptionally effective in leaving many of us, especially those with the bigger megaphones, in a state of limbo.  Dispel whatever illusions you may have that he’s on our side quickly and get to it, unless you’d like to enjoy yet another bitter defeat the day amnesty is signed into law.  He.  Will.  Not.  Walk.  Away.  From.  This.  Bill.  No.  Matter.  What.

Keep paying attention.  This isn’t nearly over yet.

The IRS Scandal Makes For Great Cover

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I’m no more thrilled about the IRS scandal than anyone else.  Even less so since I realize despite all the sound and fury, the number of Republicans who actually mean to do something substantive about it is despairingly small.  Plenty of the status-quo sorts will make noise and exploit it for votes and fundraising, but nothing more.  So, in the interest of electing more Republicans who’ll actually do something about the IRS, it might be a good idea to mention a cynical truth.

The IRS scandal makes for great cover if you’re Establishment.

I know firsthand that Rubio’s fundraising off of it.  Conspicuous by its absence in the last fundraising letter he sent me was that whole amnesty thing tanking his numbers among conservatives.  If he can focus on the IRS it just might reverse the trend.

McConnell may return to the Senate with this as his primary issue, only to lead the Republicans to capitulation and defeat for another six years.  This should very well be pursued but won’t be by people like him outside of a treasure of grandstanding and token investigations.  Not much use in that.

Best of all for them, it serves as a wonderful distraction for the amnesty bill.  The last thing we want is to realize that it’s still around the day it’s signed into law.  The Republicans will use the distraction to pass it believing that foolish ‘where are they going to go’ bit about conservatives while the Democrats finally gain their undisputed control.  Scandals won’t matter once it’s signed and the GOP realizes too late their pander failed to attract new voters even as it loses them existing ones.

Yes, we’d like to fix this but electing a new crop of RINOs swept into power on a wave of righteous indignation won’t do it.  The solution to this is conservative/libertarian, not the same old Establishment Republican, and we’ll be back where it started before the Tea Parties began.  It also won’t matter if the nation’s destruction is signed under cover of the increasingly loud theatrics.  So keep on this but not to the exclusion of your sense.  Look at it for too long and something worse might happen.